33 Iconic Presidential Quotes to Use as Instagram Captions
We're celebrating President's Day this Monday, Feb. 17, in honor of those who've served as president of the United States. What better way to do so than by recognizing the wit and wisdom of past presidents?
It seems that leadership and authority often go hand and hand with being extremely quotable, so we've gathered some of the most famous and repeated lines from presidential history in one place. Below, find some of our favorite presidential quotes to use as your next Instagram caption any time of year.
For acting together with authenticity:
"In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves."
-George Washington
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For fighting for justice:
"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing."
-Thomas Jefferson
For giving it a shot:
"Try and fail, but don't fail to try."
-John Quincy Adams
For knowing you just need to keep going:
"For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!"
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
For doing your part:
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
-Theodore Roosevelt
For concentrating your efforts to changing the future:
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."
-Lyndon B. Johnson
For aiming to be No. 1:
"Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'"
-Gerald R. Ford
For making a firm plan:
"Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next."
-Herbert Hoover
For feeling capable of anything:
"Great men are ordinary men with extra ordinary determination."
-Abraham Lincoln
For exercising your right to vote:
"I like the noise of democracy."
-James Buchanan
For celebrating the strength found in kindness:
"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
For that first step toward mastery:
"Every expert was once a beginner."
-Rutherford B. Hayes
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For owning up and taking responsibility:
"99% of failures come from people who make excuses."
-George Washington
For taking a leap of faith:
"Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is."
-Jimmy Carter
For believing you can affect real change:
"One person can make a difference, and everyone should try."
-John F. Kennedy
For learning to adapt:
"Times change, and we change with them."
-William Henry Harrison
For sticking up for what's right:
"Always stand on principle even if you stand alone."
-John Adams
For knowing when you keep your mouth shut:
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
-Abraham Lincoln
For getting honest:
"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
-James Garfield
For overcoming the things that scare you:
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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For getting the job done:
"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't."
-Martin Van Buren
For celebrating equality between all people:
"Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality."
-Thomas Jefferson
For knowing the real test comes in tough times:
"In calm water every ship has a good captain."
-Grover Cleveland
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For knowing everyone working together is the path to success:
"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."
-Calvin Coolidge
For putting in the work:
"Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort."
-Theodore Roosevelt
For knowing you can achieve anything:
"If your past is limited, your future is boundless."
-Franklin Pierce
For working toward equality for everyone:
"Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them."
-William Howard Taft
For when you can't stand sitting around, waiting:
"When the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in."
-Andrew Jackson
For just wanting the right thing to get done:
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
-Harry S. Truman
For taking action:
"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."
-John F. Kennedy
For making your dreams a reality:
"The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it."
-Abraham Lincoln
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For actively making a difference:
"This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in."
-Theodore Roosevelt
For remembering that communication goes both ways:
"You have only one way to convince others, listen to them."
-George Washington
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